Chapter 369: Things You Give Away Will Never Be Returned
Lu Tingchuan was more patient than Li Jingshen and would not get angry if Shen Qing did not answer his questions directly.
He reached out to grab Shen Qing and repeated the question: "Tell me what are you afraid of?"
The person in his arms was as stiff as a wooden stake, which made Lu Tingchuan realize that something was wrong. He touched Shen Qing's calloused fingertips and asked, "Is it because of piano practice?"
Shen Qing shook her head. Lu Tingchuan held her in his arms, not daring to move. After sobbing for a while, she choked out, "You asked me to practice the piano because of her? You asked me to change my name to Zhichu not because you wanted me to forget the past and start over, but because you used me as a substitute?"
She sniffled sadly and spoke incoherently with a sticky tone, but Lu Tingchuan laughed.
"Who told you to touch my things? Wouldn't it be better to pretend you don't know? You're just asking for trouble." Lu Tingchuan's voice was still soft and pleasant.
Shen Qing is a country girl from a small village. She has no power or influence. She foolishly signed a contract with an economic company and became a pie in the sky for capitalism.
Lu Tingchen had always looked down on her. If it weren't for her exploitable face, he wouldn't even look at her for a second.
Born inferior to others, Shen Qing didn't even have the qualifications to talk about self-respect. She didn't expect Lu Tingchuan to admit it directly.
She stared at Lu Tingchuan blankly, tears streaming down her face.
Lu Tingchuan pinched her face and said, "Stop crying. You don't look like her when you cry. You should smile more." He pressed the corner of her lips with his hand and pulled them up. "You should smile more. When you smile, you will look like her. When you've cried enough, play the violin. I want to see how you've been doing."
Shen Qing choked up and said, "I don't want to practice the piano anymore." What she actually wanted to say was that she didn't want to be a stand-in anymore.
Lu Tingchen and Li Jingshen are people of the same blood. Their personalities are not exactly the same, but they are roughly the same. After all, they have both been in high positions, and the people around them revolve around him. Almost no one will resist his thoughts.
He grabbed Shen Qing's hand and said, "Since you don't want to practice the piano anymore, there's no need to keep your hand. Why don't you do the same as the guy in the video and insert 28 steel needles into your fingernails?"
Shen Qing's legs went weak. Only then did she truly understand Lu Tingchuan. This man was a devil. The funny thing was that she actually regarded this devil as a god who saved her from hell.
Lu Tingchuan touched her fingers, gently sweeping across their tips. Shen Qing said in despair, "I'll practice. I'll play it for you right now."
"That's good." Lu Tingchuan touched her head, as if rewarding an obedient puppy.
He held Shen Qing's hand and went to the piano room. Shen Qing had no choice. No matter how hard her arms were, she couldn't twist his thighs. She could only let him lead her into the piano room in a daze, and then he took the violin and put it on his shoulder.
The fear had a great impact on her. She played the piano intermittently, and tears flowed from the corners of her eyes onto the strings.
There was a sharp creaking sound, and Shen Qing put down the violin in his hand.
She is not Shen Zhichu, no matter how well she practices, she can never become her.
Lu Tingchuan frowned and uttered two words: "It's unpleasant."
In the following days, they got along as usual as if nothing had happened.
Shen Qing still served Lu Tingchuan like a servant, taking care of his daily life and meals, just like a maid in ancient times. The only difference was that Lu Tingchuan didn't need her as a maid, and he never touched her. The closest contact was the last time she was on the sofa, Lu Tingchuan hugged her and pinched the corners of her mouth to teach her how to smile like Shen Zhichu.
From the moment she changed her name, she gave up the life that belonged to "Shen Qing".
Shen Qing began to work hard to learn Shen Zhichu's glance and smile, and become a qualified substitute.
Seeing that she had almost learned enough, Lu Tingchuan arranged a time for her to accompany Li Jingshen.
He asked Shen Qing to be Shen Zhichu's substitute, not for himself from the beginning, but to use this little substitute to restrain Li Jingshen.
Li Jingshen has been half-dead for the past three years because of Shen Zhichu's death. If he gives him a substitute, maybe he will be grateful to him.
In his eyes, Shen Qing has always been very obedient. Even though he knew that he was a substitute, he still did his job honestly, without making any noise or fuss, and accepted the arrangement easily.
If she were asked to accompany another man, she probably wouldn't refuse.
Shen Qing didn't refuse. She just said in a hoarse voice: "Things you give away can never be returned."
Since when did she stop considering herself as a person, and instead consider herself as a thing, a thing that Lu Tingchuan could use and manipulate at will, a thing that could be given away at will.
Lu Tingchuan scoffed at the time. Did Shen Qingzheng think she was that important? She was dispensable. From the beginning, he had never taken her seriously.
"I'll never come back after I leave." When Shen Qing spoke again, he was like a soulless doll, with his dark eyes open and his lips moving mechanically.
Lu Tingchuan said, "Okay, as long as you go to Li Jingshen's room tonight, it's up to you whether you come back or not, but if you choose not to come back, don't regret it."
What he didn't know was that Shen Qing's biggest regret in his life was meeting her, and he was willing to be her substitute for a whole year.
In the end, Shen Qingzhen left and never came back, just as she said, and she blocked all his contact information.
However, it took Lu Tingchuan a long time to adapt to life without Shen Qing.
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